Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1887-08-16
MISCELLANEOUS.
Monthly Auction Trade journal
Leader-August, 1887.

The nineteenth century has ecilpsed
all the epochs, eras and ages of the
past in its scientific strides toward
the final perfection that viii be as far
beyond our present advanced ideas
of progress as the present in all its
unparalleled attainments overshadows
the grand glories of Athens and Per-
seopCtis and Rome. Brains itumi-
mated by genius and driven by ambi-
ton vii ever be the great sohee1 of
aggression and progression. The lever
is steam to-day, but the generation
which is pushing the present race
from the stage viii laugh to scorn the
old fogies of the age of steam and
steel and muscle with their new mo-
tors of electricity and the unknown
forge and their mechanical appliances
of machinery to perfectly control
these magnified, tremendous, phe-
nomenal forces; one and two hundred
miles an hour viii be the schedule
time, and still further ahead distances
that now demand the whole day will
be beaten In single hour of time,
and tho tie scientists may pooh-pooh
it to-day, and tho Che most of us may
not witness these wonderful leaps and
strides of the coming age, there are
living children who will, in their day
look back upon our high pitch of
power as infantile in comparison to
the unborn giant yet in the womb of
thought. And will our mercantile
masters, the future CLAFL1Ns and
STEWARDS, take warning and jump
from the stage coach and the mule
team with the flint lock and the
smooth bore and keep up with the
unwavering, irresistible march of mod
ern ideas in every direction?-wil
they cling to the 1872 ideas of four
months up, when the 1887 net spot
cash electricity is paralyzing the dead
old Cesar of credit, and crowding
him and his iIfated armies from the
very face of time? Must it then be
said that the progressive legions in
this advanced age, great and grand
in all that looks beyond to-day, will
tread in the hidcn paths of long time
when the motor of the iron trak viii
whirl them there almost in day ?
Alasl 1t seems impossible to drive in
teligent, experienced, cultivated mer-
camille material from this delusive
and dreadful dream.
Out of the twenty-three thousand
names that adorn our list-agould you
6elieve it.? SIN THOUSAND ARE OF THE
FAIR sExr What lesson to the young
gentlemen of the age crowding the
gilded palaces of the quintescencc of
corn, hops and apples-the cigaret
fiend, whose whole time is absorbed
in the thrilling romance of baseball,
horserace and theatre, whose ambition
never scars above the joke and slang
and laf-whosc nights are turned into
day, and whose career boiled down
may be written in the words, indo-
lence, ignorance and crime! 1t al
ways makes this writer feel small, and
yet telling of intens pride to Sc a
woman springing into 4 place that a
man should take and graphing with
fate, commanding success by the sheer
force of pluck, patience and persever-
ence, and carving her name into eter-
nal time as HEROINE. The mere
mention of these terrible struggles with
adversely is cnuf to heat red hot the
blood of mediocrity whose sing-song
of the " aUorld oaUes me a liUin," and
:: all the same in Ct life time,'' is their
entire stock of philosophy, occupation
and contcntment. The world owes
its history to the gerry .te,0, its heroes
and heroines, not to the unrecorded,
unhonored, un5ung ded lumber of
commonplace!
Our reason for presenting and in
PRODUCING this list of NEW SPOT GRAD
YATES, GENERALS and MERCHANT PRIN-
CEs, is, that peple who liv in difernt
States may Sc for themselves the
working of this admirable, forcible
and aggresiv twenty-five percent sys-
tem-buying horse, you want to Sc
him " get up and DUST" or a saw
mil, to feel its intensity, so when you
are waking from the lethargy and
slumbcr of the diabolical credit NOR
phine and propose to rest your hopes
and chances on this circular saw logic
of two dicisiv words UNEDERBUY & IN
DERsELL. you want to see how it rev.
oIutionizes the dead dogmas Of the
dead past. Hence, we introduce you
to MEN (the author does not say gen.
Aeman becaus in this seething age of
the diamond drill any s,cel with kids
and silk hat is what fashion Gals q
perfect gentleman. But these spendid
fellows whose unsulied names grace
these pages are solid, savage, agresiv,
successful MEN and we take pride and
pleasure in presenting these MERCAN-
TILE HEROES, some of them, many Of
them; in fact, EVERY ONE OF THEM,
worth whole regiment of every day
gentlemen of leisure, pleasure and
case. We thus introduce the role
call of success to the merchants of the
UNITED STATES, CANADA, MEXICO,
AUSTRALIA, SOUTH AMERICA, and
THE EAST AND WEST INDIES, in num-
Der ONE MILLION and over, simply to
show the difference between success
and defeat, between the outside and
the inside trak, between the past and
the present, and to show why some
march to the front in few short
Napoleonic strides, and others drift
quietly and unawares into the .etn-
knogn. When you hav had an hours
talk with these prOgresiv peple of
MONEY DOWN, come here to the ME-
TRoPoLIs of the world and find REAL
HEADQUARTERS, for you an'LSt get at
Observation-Disclosures sledgeham-
ers and Chicago corn and cob-crush
ers and st. Louis jawsmashers aCM